Wayne County, Michigan, United States

Details for Wayne County

Name

Wayne County

Place Type

County

Located in

Michigan, United States

County Seat

Detroit

Coordinates

Latitude		42.2505940		42° 15' 02.1" N
Longitude		-83.2832624		83° 16' 59.7" W

Population

2,111,687

Elevation

190 m

Surrounding Counties

Macomb NE
Saint Clair NE
Monroe SW
Washtenaw W
Oakland N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1623022

Histopolis Place ID

276518222

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Wayne County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Wayne County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Wayne County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Wayne/cem/ (29 Sep 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Wayne County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Michigan > Wayne County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MI/Wayne/ (28 Apr 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Wayne County, Mich. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Wayne County, Michigan Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Wayne County Michigan
http://www.interment.net/us/mi/wayne.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1308 (9 Sep 2009)

Wayne County, Michigan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_County,_Michigan (20 Jul 2010)

USGenWeb Archives: Wayne County, MI Cemetery Transcriptions [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/wayne/8201cem.htm (8 Dec 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Wayne County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22195&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (30 Sep 2008)

Wayne County, Michigan MI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Wayne County, Michigan MI, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22195 (15 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Wayne County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Michigan Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Wayne County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap Wayne County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships, Charter Townships and Cities of Wayne County

4 Townships, 6 Charter Townships, 33 Cities (City is assumed unless noted)

Allen Park	Belleville	Brownstown Charter Township (charter township)	Canton Charter Township (charter township)
Dearborn	Dearborn Heights	Detroit	Ecorse
Flat Rock	Garden	Gibraltar	Grosse Ile (township)
Grosse Pointe (township)	Grosse Pointe	Grosse Pointe Farms	Grosse Pointe Park
Grosse Pointe Woods	Hamtramck	Harper Woods	Highland Park
Huron Charter Township (charter township)	Inkster	Lincoln Park	Livonia
Melvindale	Northville (township)	Northville	Plymouth
Plymouth Charter Township (charter township)	Redford Charter Township (charter township)	River Rouge	Riverview
Rockwood	Romulus	Southgate	Sumpter (township)
Taylor	Trenton	Van Buren Charter Township (charter township)	Wayne
Westland	Woodhaven	Wyandotte

Cities of Wayne County

33 Cities, 1 Village, 35 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Allen Park (city)	Beech	Belleville (city)	Belleville North
Canton	Cherry Hill	Cherry Island	Conners Creek
Dearborn (city)	Dearborn Heights (city)	Delray	Denton
Detroit (city)	East Rockwood	Ecorse (city)	Edgewater Heights
Elm	Eloise	Flat Rock (city)	Fort Wayne
French Landing	Garden (city)	Gibraltar (city)	Grand View Acres
Greenfield Village	Grosse Ile	Grosse Pointe (city)	Grosse Pointe Farms (city)
Grosse Pointe Park (city)	Grosse Pointe Shores (village)	Grosse Pointe Woods (city)	Hamtramck (city)
Hand	Harper Woods (city)	Highland Park (city)	Inkster (city)
Lincoln Park (city)	Livonia (city)	Maple Beach	Martinsville
Melvindale (city)	Milleville Beach	New Boston	Northville (city)
Norton	Norwayne	Oak	Plymouth (city)
Redford	River Rouge (city)	Riverview (city)	Rockwood (city)
Romulus (city)	Roulo	Sheldon	Sibley
Southgate (city)	Stark	Sunnyside	Taylor (city)
Taylor Center	Trenton (city)	Waltz	Wayne (city)
West Sumpter	Westland (city)	Willow	Woodhaven (city)
Wyandotte (city)

Cemeteries of Wayne County

76 Cemeteries, 10 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bethel Memorial Park	Betholem	Bloomdale	Bnai-David
Cadillac Memorial Gardens West	Chubb	Clarenceville	Denton
Downer	Elmwood	Eloise	Evergreen
Evergreen	Felt	Ferndale	Forest Hill
Forest Lawn	Fort Wayne Post	Ganong	Gethsemane
Gibraltar	Glen Eden	Glenwood	Grand Lawn
Hillside	Holy Cross	Huron	Huron Valley
Kinyon	Kittle	Krause	Livonia
Lutheran	Maple Grove	Martinsville	Metropolitan Memorial Park
Michigan Memorial Park	Mount Carmel	Mount Elliott	Mount Hazel
Mount Hope Memorial Garden	Mount Kelley	Mount Olivet	Mt. Carmel (*)
Mt. Elliott (*)	Mt. Hazel (*)	Mt. Hope Memorial Garden (*)	Mt. Kelley (*)
Mt. Olivet (*)	National Memorial Gardens	Newburgh	Northview
Northwest Hebrew	Nowland	Nowlin	Oak Forest
Oak Ridge	Oakwood	Otisville	Our Lady of Hope
Parkview Memorial	Redford	Riverside (Huron Charter Township)	Riverside (Plymouth)
Rucker	Rural Hill	Sacred Heart	Saint Hedwig
Saint Mary	Saint Marys	Saint Stephen	Sheldon
St. Hedwig (*)	St. Mary (*)	St. Marys (*)	St. Stephen (*)
Taylor	Thayer	Tyler	Waterford
West Mound	Westlawn	Woodlawn	Woodmere (Detroit)
Woodmere (Huron Charter Township)	Yerkes

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